Public Health

City council rejoins ICS after reforms agreed in privatisation and accountability row

17.04.19: Nottingham City Council is to rejoin its local NHS integrated care system (ICS) after significant reforms were made to the way the system runs in order to address concerns over accountability and privatisation. The local authority’s e...

Turning blue lights green

11.04.19: Polly Billington, director of UK100, a cities network that campaigns on environmental issues, argues that the NHS needs a national strategy for air pollution. Toxic air pollution isn’t just an environmental catastrophe, it’s a...

Trusts still ‘failing to embrace open learning culture’ and must improve pace of change, says CQC

19.03.19: Trusts are not doing enough to review and learn from the deaths of their patients and “failure to fully embrace an open, learning culture” is holding organisations back, according to the CQC. Published today, the health inspecto...

Isle of Wight Trust admits ‘failing terribly’ in reports to coroner who was left ‘wanting to weep’

08.03.19: An NHS trust has admitted “failing terribly” in not disclosing abnormalities over the death of patients to the coroner. Coroner Caroline Sumeray told a hearing that 20 serious incident investigations (SI) were not reported to he...

Health, Social Care and Wellbeing at EvoNorth 2019

07.03.19: Under the banner of the Northern Powerhouse, health and social care has been one of the most prevalent themes for the improvement and sustainability of public health in the North. Following the landmark announcement of the NHS Long-Term Plan in...

Do you know if you’re an alcoholic?

06.03.19: With around 1,500 alcohol-related hospital stays for both adults and under 18s at the Great Western Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust every year, it is clear that alcohol-related ill health is both a concern and a significant demand on the NHS.&nbs...

England’s only NHS gender clinic ‘too quick’ to give gender reassignment treatment, says ex-governor

25.02.19: A former governor of England’s only NHS gender clinic has aired his concerns with the trust, claiming that clinicians are searching for “quick solutions” when working with children and young people in the clinic. Dr Marcus...

Body parts and toxic waste still piled up at abandoned medical base

10.01.19: The state of the abandoned medical base of the disposal firm at the centre of the NHS waste stockpiling scandal has been revealed, with body parts and clinical waste remaining piled up and untreated on the site since it stopped trading in Decemb...

NHS 10-year plan: up to 500,000 lives targeted to be saved with prevention and early detection schemes

07.01.19: A commitment to save as many as 500,000 more lives over the next decade through detection and early prevention was one of the headlines of the long-awaited NHS 10-year plan announced by prime minister Theresa May today. Described as the &ld...

Hospitals are coping better with festive pressures and are ‘better equipped’ for winter crisis

03.01.19: The NHS seems to be coping better with winter pressures this year with fewer A&E closures and ambulance delays than this point last year as health chiefs say the health service has been “better equipped” for winter by an extra &p...

New wave of technologies puts surgery ‘on verge of transformative change’

07.12.18: A new wave of technologies will transform surgery across the NHS with advances in digital technology and human biology improving the treatment of millions of patients, according to an independent commission. The Commission on the Future of...

‘Transformational’ genome sequencing project reaches 100,000 patients target

06.12.18: Matt Hancock has announced that the world’s largest gene sequencing project in healthcare has reached its original target of sequencing 100,000 whole genomes from NHS patients. People with rare diseases, cancer patients, and family me...

AI diagnosis and national study included in new early disease detection £1.3bn deal

05.12.18: A £1.3bn investment from the government and the industry has been announced in a bid to drive early disease technology as part of the new Life Sciences Sector Deal. The second ever Life Sciences Sector Deal, announced by Matt Hancock...

NHS England and NHSI to give Healthwatch ‘significant investment’

27.11.18: NHS England and NHS Improvement are to give “significant investment” to Healthwatch England in order to support local Healthwatch to “ensure the views of patients and the public are heard.” The money will be used to...

‘Deep-rooted’ poor health in the Northern Powerhouse depriving the region of £13bn a year

22.11.18: Poor health in the north relative to the rest of the UK has a major impact on the area’s productivity, according to a report from six northern universities. The Northern Health Science Alliance (NHSA) study said that tackling the nort...